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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysavuz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRON- MENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPRO- PRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 9:34 a.m., in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Lisa Murkowski (Chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Murkowski, Capito, Daines, Hyde-Smith, Udall, Leahy, Tester, Merkley, and Van Hollen. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STATEMENT OF THE HONORABLE SCOTT PRUITT, ADMINISTRATOR ACCOMPANIED BY HON. HOLLY GREAVES, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR LISA MURKOWSKI Senator MURKOWSKI. Good morning, everyone. We are here to re- view the fiscal year 2019 budget request for the Environmental Protection Agency. I'd like to begin by welcoming our witnesses today. We welcome back to the subcommittee Administrator Pruitt. He is accompanied by Holly Greaves, who is the Chief Financial Officer for the Agency. Thank you both for coming back before the subcommittee. Just a reminder to colleagues, we'll follow the early bird rule here. We will have 6-minute rounds of questions. I anticipate that there will be substantial interest in the hearing this morning, so I would ask Members to try to stick with the time limit. We can do multiple rounds, but the Administrator has a hard stop at noon, so we will be working to meet that. We also have a couple votes at noon as well. Each year, this subcommittee holds a hearing to examine the EPA's budget request. In some years, the budget is the focus of the hearing, appropriately so. In other years, Agency actions draw the majority of the questions. I would suggest that the size of the audi- ence this morning is an indicator of substantial interest in this year's hearing, so I look forward to the dialogue. Administrator Pruitt, when you were before the subcommittee last year, you said that you would work to return the EPA to its core mission of ensuring clean water, clean air, and clean land, something that we all encourage and support. You also stated a de- (1)

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